On 25 April 2013, Milanka Opačić, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Policy and Youth along with the Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Public Administration, Darko Parić, presented the eCitizens project.

According to an announcement made in late April 2013 on the website of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations, the latest release of the European Commission’s Internal Market Information System (IMI) has been launched.

The working group of the Steering Committee for eGovernment Strategy has been set up to examine how to make it easier for foreigners who want to move to Denmark as well as for Danes living abroad to communicate with the authorities digitally.

On 8 April 2013, the ‘ELAK im Bund’ (electronic file system) was launched for judicial administration, thanks to the successful cooperation between the Constitutional Court of Austria and the Federal Computing Centre (Die Bundesrechenzentrum – BRZ, in German).

In April 2013, ‘Digital Romania’, the national public centre affiliated to the Ministry of Information Society and the technical operator of the Point of Single Contact, PSC (Punctul de Contact Unic, in Romanian) launched the process of requesting local public administrations to join www.ed

On 14 March 2013, Danielle Gagnaux, the chancellor of Fribourg canton and André Simonazzi, the Federal Council spokesman, launched a revamped version of the ch.ch portal, which provides a quick way of finding information about the confederation, cantons and communes.

The Spanish Open Data portal, datos.gob.es, has recently published its software code in the open source forge managed by CENATIC.

As announced on 26 March 2013, the Borrow Books library provides users with a new services that enables them to search the online catalogues and websites of Irish public library authorities and request books, CDs, DVDs, etc. to be delivered to their own local branch.

According to the Electronic Sophistication Index 2012, administered by the Department of Public Administration and Justice of the Basque Government, 35.1 % of the public procedures and processes can be made entirely over the Internet.

The European Commission invites metadata experts who directly or indirectly work for a governmental data portal to participate in a working group that will define a common model for exchanging information about data sets between data portals in Europe.

In March 2013, the Federal Government announced the creation of a new management system for secure access to online public services and eGovernment applications.

As announced on 25 March 2013, the Agency for Administrative Modernisation (Agência para a Modernização Administrativa – AMA, in Portuguese) and the Technical Engineers Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros Técnicos – OET, in Portuguese) signed an agreement for the creation of a digital signature for technical engin

Since the beginning of March 2013, Kela – the national Social Insurance Institution – allows people throughout the country to book their appointments with the institution online.

In order to simplify the consumer protection procedures, the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority (Valstybinė vartotojų teisių apsaugos tarnyba – VVTAT, in Lithuanian) launched a project whose aim is to build an online consumer rights protection system.

In March 2013, the Ministry for Information Society awarded a contract to an IT consortium to provide project management consulting services for the software development, training, information provision and promotion of the national small and medium enterprises (SME) portal. The portal is expected to go live in September 2013.